I let a tiny bit of crying come out at 3 am Monday morning and now all the crying I haven’t done in the past 2 years is trying to push its way through.

Oof. Doing a second round of coding and I am R-U-S-T-Y rusty.

How do you handle a day when your brain isn’t doing a great job but you also don’t really want to nap because you will feel logie afterwards and you’ve already gone for a walk and had a snack? Shower? Probably a shower. Or more coffee? Shower and coffee?

Hey, Kimberly. You actually are not in a good position right now to do an in-depth analysis of every mention or example of social science in the Star Trek franchise, so settle down. 🖖

🔖 Read It’s Called Acting: Learning to Fight for the Stage. 🎭

🔖 Read Network sitcoms are actually good again. 📺

🍿 Watched Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe and I definitely cried twice because I’m a big sister and there were some beautiful sibling moments.

🔖 Read Is it time to live with COVID-19? Some scientists warn of ‘endemic delusion’

“I don’t particularly want to be in a future where I get COVID twice a year,” Pagel adds.

Me either, Professor Pagel. Me either.

🔖 Read Curing Coronavirus Isn’t a Job for Social Scientists. (This article is from May 2020, which is probably why it has the word “curing” in the title when that seems like, you know, not a thing that is possible.)

🔖 Read Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?.

It IS great news that’s my mom’s leukemia is in remission. It’s important to me to remember that there is a long road ahead, with monthly inpatient chemo and other treatment. Thank you everyone for your kind words.

My mom’s leukemia is in remission.

Please listen to Gaslit Nation, where Sarah Kendzior & Andrea Chalupa “take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.”

I am scared and overwhelmed. Here’s what I’m doing about it:

  1. Making sure I take my meds and supplements
  2. Reading and following the Gaslit Nation Action Guide
  3. Planning to spend some time today crafting

Working through Project READY and I wrote an “I am” poem [PDF]. I don’t want to share the whole thing but in case you’re wondering how I define myself, the first line/refrain is:

I am smart and loving

That feeling when your new job pays you to work through the professional development curriculum you created as part of your old job.

Not sure what my dream casting for most of the roles in Ninth House would be, but @may_wise Mary Wiseman for Pamela Dawes please, okay bye.

I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up with this word cloud. I can’t make good alt text but contact me if you want the CSV word list.

🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries.

This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as high-risk.

Sigh.

Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.

No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.

I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from academia.

Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup

Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to bust through it.

Me: Let me tell you about my TNG fanfic where Data teaches Geordi improv.

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